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BROPHY JU. ditor ........ ..................Chesser M. Campbell n Editorial Board.....................Lee Woodruff Editors- T. H.Adams H. W. Hitchcock J I. Dakin J. E. McManis Renaud Sherwood T. W. Sargent, Jr. Editor ......et............ .. - --.-- - .--sein tor .............B..... ....... .B. P. Campbell is ...... ........T. J. Whinery, L. A. Kern, S. L each ................Robert Angell s ditor...........................Mary D. Lane h .... ..........................Thomas Dewey e . ..... .R. Meiss Assistants e Waldo Frank H. McPike Sidney B. Coates Weber J. A. Bacon C. T. Pennoyer hi Vickery W. W. Ottaway Marion B. Stahl Reindel Paul Watzel Lowell S. Kerr 3 Grundy Byron Darnton Marion Koch Oberholtzer M. A. Kiaver Dorothy Whippie E. Adams Walter Donnelly Gerald P. Overton F. Elliott Beata Hasley Edward Lambrecht a McBain Kathrine Montgomery Sara Wailer H. E: Howiett The "Capers of I980" - if we may predict from the present tendency - will stand as a new and an unique American art, with standards as fully developed as today's in legitimate drama - the art of pure amusement. A type of master book-writers and stagers, brilliant librettists and producers and composers, is already being born of the need, and development may be expected to continue until the satisfying revues of 1921 will seem experimental by comparison. The risque joke without even the sav- ing quality of humor, the nudities and the crudi- ties committed not even in the name of art, will take their way; and we, the college men and women who are most exacting of all, will have had a real part in this movement toward the beautiful and the clever. Many will say that it is not worth while, that none but the true drama can have a rightful place. But they are only those who are unwilling to face the facts of a nation's preference and make the best of them, recognizing the value of a higher charac- ter in the amusements which millions of Americans patronize every day. TO THE EDITORS The old cry of "in at the finish" is not nearly so satisfying as that of "in at the start" when applied to something which turns out to be really worth' while. Ann Arbor, all signs seem to say, is going to be just that -- and the publications of the Uni- versity of Michigan are sincerely pleased to be able to say "Welcome!" to the editors of Conference pa- pers and magazines who 'gather here today for the first convention of the Conference Editorial asso- ciation. - 'There are several very good reasons for believ- ing that this as yet but embryo society of campus leaders is going to be a permanent force for good in Western universities. First of all, there is the assurance that every editor who attends will get a new viewpoint -- a genuine understanding of his fellow editors, a feeling that their problems are his' .own, an idea of the true natural solidity of an or- ganization like the Conference whose members, as similar state universities, should stand together as a community for the good of all. Before this knowledge of each other the old prejudices and hatreds ought to give way. There is no reason why any misconceptions should longer exist if the power of publicity - controlled by these campus publication heads -- can be brought to bear. Discussion in this group should, through the years, take on a character both businesslike and val- uable. Not only should the publications profit by the journalistic experience of their contemporaries, but an infinite number of policies on every kind of university community r and. Conference problem should be thrashed out and made the subject of common action. Finally - and we hope that this, the first con- vention, will fully justify our belief - every con- vention ought to find the delegates leaving with a genuine friendship engendered by the entertain- ment of the University which serves as host. The Telescope GOLF 1921 MAYT' 1921 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1S 19 20 21 22 24 24 25 26 27 2S 29 30 31 PANAMAS We Clean, Bleach and Block Panamas., etc., into the Late Shapes, with all new trimmings to look just like new. We don't use any acids and do only High Class Work. Factory Hat Store, 617 Packard St. Phone 1792. SUPPLIES _.... . -AT " BGR AHA M'S BOTH ENDS OF THE DIAGONAL WALK Gratis A fraternity or fancy hat band with every sstraw hat AN% ! I ^ BUSIESS STAFF Telephone 960 S. MANAGER..........LEGRAND A. GAINES, JR. .......D. P., Joyce ....... ... .S. Kunstadter n......................... -..P. M. Heath ........-- E. R. Priehs n ..................... . . V. F. Hillery Assistantsv ambrech't M. "M. Moule H. C. Hunt amel, Jr. N. W. Robertson M. S. Goldring lutchinson Thos. L. Rice H. W. Heidbreder ross R. G. Burchell W. Cooley , Davis A. J. Parker DETROIT UNITED LINES In Effect Nov. 2, 1920 Between Detroit, Ann Arbor and Jackson (Eastern Standard Time) Limited and Express cars leave for Detroit at 6:05 a. n., 7:05 a. m., 8:10 a. m., and hourly to 9:10 p. m. Limiteds to Jackson at 8:48 a. m. and every two hours to 8:48 p. mn. Ex- presses at 9:48 a.tim. and eery two hours to 9:48 p. m. Locals to Detroit-5:55a.m.. 7:00 a.m. and every two hours to 9:00 p.i., also 11:00 p. m. To Ypsilanti only, 11:40 p.m., 12:25 a.m., and 3:15 a.m. Locals to Jackson-7:60 u. m., and 1,2:10 p.m. Cool Comfortable Straws with cushion s w e a ts Priced $4.00 to $6.oo I 0 a CO FINE TAILORING FINE FURNISHINGS W. L: J. Ha H. H A.C bt. L ersons wishing to secure information concerning news f r any of The Daily should sae the night editor, who has full bharge news to be printed that night. FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921. PAINT L, SPECIALTY Night Editor-THOMAS E. DEWEY., "NIGHT OF NIGHTS"' Tonight is the night of nights of the freshman year,' for the little grey pot disappears for all time into the roaring fire. Tomorrow there will be no freshmen on the Michigan campus. The year of probation as, Michigan men ends tonight, here- after the Class of '24 need not doff its cap at the' insistent cry of older classmen. But Cap night has come to mean more than the mere stepping up of the lowest class. It is one of the few traditions that continued uninterrupted through the war years, It is, since the abolition of the older type of convocation which used to, be held in the fall, the most impressive ceremony of the year. The huge fire, the thousands of students, banked against the hillsides, the speaker picked out, of the surrounding darkness by the glare of the, searchlight, the band, the rollicking rendition of "Where, oh, where are the verdant freshmen?" all combine to make it the one event of the year which is recalled to memory as being distinctly worth while. There may be ), few "serious students" who are unable to find the time to be in Sleepy Hollow to- night, but we're betting that every real Michigan student will be there, and there only. "THE CAPERS OF 1980" Real drama is supposed to lead its public, edu- cating .its audiences up to it. But the production whose pure and single aim is to delight and amuse, and not to make people think, is a mirror of the public taste in entertainment; its followers, para- doxically, lead it and educate the producers who rely on their patronage. The typical revue - andr this sort of show, due to the high tension working day of our speed-and-production America, is far more in demand than the play with a plot - is at present a composite of the amusement requirements of millions of patrons who have expressed their likes and dislikes in the one way the box office can understand. Increasingly the girl-comedy-music form of re- laxation is gaining a larger coterie of the intelli- gent, a greater backing of the smarter class of so- ciety. It is able to charge fabulous seat prices and still display the "S. R. 0." Not only the college undergraduate class - which demands the latest almost before it's invented, and upon whose criti- cal eyes the new shows are often "tried out" -- but the educated business men and their families, and the clever younger sets of the big cities, have for the last five years or so been making an indelible stamp on America's Revues and Follies and Carni- vals and Whirls and Roof Shows. With the more critical audience has come a remarkable bettering of the quality in all productions. The old "Ham Tree" type of hodgepodge, and the average stilted' half-plot variety of musical comedy, have given way to the genuinely humorous, always clever, us-' wally new, and beautifully staged concoctions of the Cantors and Wynns and Ziegfields, and the "Sally" type of comedy. The inartistically sensa- tional, flamboyant, coarse shows of the past, rely- ing too largely on "chestnuts" and a burlesque SALESMAN to sell our complete line of paints, varnishes and roofing paint specialties to con- sumer trade on straight com- mission basis, exclusive ter- ritory granted. In one let- ter state age, previous ex- perience, references, terri- tory or towns you can cover. Only producers will be con- sIdered who can make some real money. 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